POLL - How many deaths a day, over a period of time, will mark the pandemic being over?

[Yandex]

I'm probably not wording this artfully.

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	Less than 300 deaths a day over 2 months
	1 (17%)
	Less than 250 deaths a day over 2 months
	0 (0%)
	Less Than 100 deaths a day over 2 months
	0 (0%)
	Same as 1 above over 6 months
	0 (0%)
	Same as 2 above over 6 months
	1 (17%)
	Same as 3 above over 6 months
	1 (17%)
	It will never be completely over
	3 (50%)
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[maxsolomon]

1. its already over for me

i'm done.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. It's a moving target, but as long as the economy is kicking along, we'll be told that the deaths

aren't a concern because (a) it's the correct/expected/usual people dying and (b) ThE eCoNoMy!!!!!!!1!!1!!!!1!11! I mean, we're essentially there now.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. 40-50

That puts it in line with influenza, which is endemic, not pandemic.

[Yandex]

4. 40-50?

Deaths a day?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Like The Flu

Typical year for the flu, per the CDC is 12-18k deaths per year.
365 days a year, so at the low end 33 deaths per day, at the upper end of the range about 49 per day.
We have lived with that level of risk of the flu, including of course available vaccines, for decades.
Flu is just a part if life at this point.
If(!) COVID gets to that point, we'll consider it too, a fact of life.
Geez, it's killing 1,500-1,800 per day & half the population considers in a fact of life now.
We get down to a fortieth of that & we'll all just live with the presence of it as endemic to our lives.

[Yandex]

7. I think the worst year for flu (lately)

was 2018 when around 80,000 people died from it. That would be around 200-210 a day. People didn't seem particularly upset about it.

Fly shots usually get an average of 45% participation of the populace. I think only once in the last 10 years it got over 50%.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. That's Correct

2018 was a huge outlier with a more virulent than normal strain. 80,000 flu deaths is a huge number.
Funny how the response to a very bad flu & a botched response to COVID came under the same administration, isn't it?
By contrast H1N1 happened during Obama. About 61 million cases, a little over 12,000 deaths. Not 80,000. Not, 800,000. 12,000. Things that make you go hmmmm! When a party that believes government can do nothing right is in charge & sets out to prove that to be true, people die.
But, that 12-20k covers a great majority of years. There were some high 20s & a 30 in the past 25-30 years, though.
That's why I came up with that number.
We don't close businesses & schools & government offices over the flu. We've learned to live with it & have resigned ourselves to the notion that flu is never going away.

[uponit7771]

6. The infection pandemic can never be over, COVID19 isn't going away even if 99% of all humans are

... vaxed.

The critical and lethal pandemic will end when the vaxes are high enough IMHO

[Yandex]

9. That will never happen IMHO n/t